Santhana Velupillai
NMR Facility Director
Biography
Research Interests
- Solution- and Solid-State NMR spectroscopy of Chemical and Biological Materials
- Structural Biology
- Bimolecular Structure and Dynamics
- Structure and function of nucleic acids and proteins
- Medicinal chemistry
- Metabolomics
- NMR education
Other Interests
- Alternative energy
- Photovoltaics
- Data networking
- Sociology
- K-12 Education
Recent Publications
- 51. S. L. Tun, S. V. Santhana Mariappan, and F. C. Pigge, "Imidozolidine hydride donors in palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydroxylations", J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 8059-8070.
- 50. C. E. Peroza, F. Chen, D. E. Wurster and S. V. Santhana Mariappan*, "Solubilization of Organics I: 1H NMR chemical shift perturbations, diffusometry and NOESY indicate biphenyls internalize in micelles formed by cetyltrimethylammonium bromide", Magn. Reson. Chem. 2019, 50, 1097-1106.
- 49. G. Campillo-Alvarado, K. P. D'mello, D. C. Swenson, S. V. Santhana Mariappan, H. Hopfl, H. Morales-Rojas and L. R. MacGillivray, "Exploiting boron coordination: B<-N bond supports a [2+2] photodimerization in solid state and generation of a diboron bis-tweezer for benzene/thiophene separation", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 1-5.
- 48. G. Campillo-Alvarado, K. Aslan, M. A. Sinnwell, E. W. Reinheimer, S. V. Santhana Mariappan, L. R. MacGillivray and R. H. Gronenman, "A solid-state [2+2] photodimerization involving coordination of Ag(I) ions to 2-pyridyl groups", J. Coord. Chem. 2018, 71, 2875-2883.
- 47. Q. Chu, A. J. E. Duncan, G. A. Papaefstathiou, T. D. Hamilton, M. B. J. Atkinson, S. V. Santhana Mariappan, L. R. MacGillivray, "Putting cocrystal stoichiometry to work: A reactive hydrogen-bonded superassembly enables nanoscale enlargement of a metal-organic rhomboid via a soild-state photocycloaddition", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 4940-4944.
